According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the last 24 hours there have been 5,309 more cases of the disease in the 55 member states of the organization and 4877 recovered, for a total of 1,210,548.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 17,838 deaths out of a universe of 734,231 infected.
In South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, 671,669 cases and 16,586 deaths have been recorded.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 329,088 infected people and 10,926 dead and in West Africa the number of infections is 175,770, with 2613 fatalities.
The East African region now accounts for 168,240 cases and registers 3295 deaths and in Central Africa 57,694 cases and 1078 deaths are registered.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths (after South Africa), has 5901 dead and 102,955 infected, and Morocco has 2113 deaths and 119,107 cases.
Algeria follows, with 51,056 recorded cases of infection and 2015 fatalities.
Among the six countries most affected are Nigeria, with 58,460 infected and 1111 dead, and Ethiopia, with 73,944 cases and 1177 fatalities.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking African countries, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola has 176 deaths and 4797 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5028 cases), Mozambique (59 deaths and 8288 cases), Cape Verde (59 deaths and 5817 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2362 cases) and São Tomé e Príncipe (15 deaths and 911 cases).
The first case of covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on February 14, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register cases of infection on February 28.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than one million deaths and more than 33.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
